What is Eszopiclone?
Eszopiclone is an hypnotic and nonbenzodiazepine used for the treatment of insomnia.
Reasons taken & Efficacy
| Reasons taken | # of patients | Major | Moderate | Slight | None | Can’t tell | # of patients evaluated by |
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| Difficulty sleeping through night | 25 |
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3 | ||||
| Insomnia | 17 |
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4 | ||
| Other | 15 | 0 | |||||
| Anxiety | 6 | 0 | |||||
| Awakening due to pain | 3 | 0 | |||||
| disease-related symptoms | 1 | 0 |
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Side Effects
Dosages
Top 10 dosages based on patients currently taking Eszopiclone. See all 13 dosages ►
Stop Reasons
| Reason | # Patients | Percentage of patients | |
|---|---|---|---|
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Did not seem to work
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9 | 60% |
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Expense
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4 | 27% |
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Other
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3 | 20% |
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Doctor's advice
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2 | 13% |
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Patient Evaluations
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- IlliniMS
- Sex: F
- Sensation: Mild
- Overall: None
- Cognition: mild
- Vision: none
- Speech: none
- Swallowing: none
- Upper limb: none
- Walking: none
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- IlliniMS
- 3 mg daily
- since Oct 15, 2009
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Efficacy
Major
for Difficulty sleeping through night
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Side Effects
None
- Advice/Tips After years of inability to sleep through a full night, my MD prescribed Lunesta. I was immediately able to notice a difference in my sleep pattern. I ... See full evaluation
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Report created on November 23, 2009.